Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt / Edition 2

by Naphtali Lewis

Overview

This volume reprints Naphtali Lewis’ important book on the uses of papyrus records reconstructing life in ancient Egypt. Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt complements Life in Egypt under Roman Rule (also in the series Classics in Papyrology) by providing a perspective on the earlier period. The author presents a series of portraits, describing the lives of inhabitants ranging from the grand (like the Strategos Diophanes) to the humble (like the village clerk, Menkhes). He sets these figures against a prosperous, busy backdrop that he terms “Eldorado on the Nile.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780970059123
Publisher:	University of Michigan Press
Publication date:	01/01/2001
Series:	Classics in Papyrology , #2
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

Editorial Reviews

Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt is a book which intends to bring (and succeeds) the hellenic population of the Nile Valley to life for us via eminently enjoyable style and masterful integration of original texts in translation into the body of the work.

KMT: A Modern Journal of Egyptology

Essential background reading for the Ptolemaic component of the Documentary Papyrology class at the University of Oxford

University of Oxford - Dr Nikolaos Gonis

Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt is a book which intends to bring (and succeeds) the hellenic population of the Nile Valley to life for us via eminently enjoyable style and masterful integration of original texts in translation into the body of the work.

KMT

Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt is a book which intends to bring (and succeeds) the hellenic population of the Nile Valley to life for us via eminently enjoyable style and masterful integration of original texts in translation into the body of the work.

KMT: A Modern Journal of Egyptology